Films

• BASTA 2015!, 3'32”

  Production: PL 2016

  A film that sums up the activity of BASTA! The Szczecin Initiative for Animals in 2015. BASTA! was formed in 2011 in Szczecin. It focuses on the fight for animal rights and promotes a lifestyle free from cruelty towards other beings.

  

  

  

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  Authors:

  • Łukasz Musiał
• Run, Run, 30'

  Production: PL 2015

  Can one successfully combine education with upbringing? Can creative work help overcome cultural, social, and linguistic barriers? Isn’t a creative approach to resocialisation a utopia? Can one prepare a play and shoot a documentary film in seven days? You will see for yourself by giving “Run, Run” thirty minutes of your precious time.

  

  

  

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  Authors:

  • Konrad Pachciarek '16
• Fabryka talentów, 2'15”

  Production: PL 2014/2015

  “Fabryka talentów” references a film by the  Lumière brothers. The camera follows six-year-olds from their first day in school for two years. Who is a young person in the first ever factory of their life, and what do they dream of?

  

  

  

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  Authors:

  • Gosia Kowalik
• Gretchen at the Spinning Wheel, 7'

  Production: AT 2015

  To separate imagination from reality is, in the case of Gretchen, who is brooding over her love for Faust, nearly impossible. The girl's feelings keep going to and fro between passion and panicked despair. What we see in the foreground, therefore, is the basic principle that connects slowing down and accelerating – one upon which Franz Schubert’s ingenious composition “Gretchen at the Spinning Wheel” has been created.

  

  

  

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  Authors:

  • Magdalena Chmielewska
• Hold on to Me: a Short Film, 4'01”

  Production: PL 2016

  Two friends go to the lake to spend one last day together. After that they have to bid farewell. “Hold on to Me” is the 21st project by amateur film company Filmotwór Niezależny.

  

  

  

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  Authors:

  • Kuba Ptaszyński '16
• End of Sleeping, 9'

  Production: PL 2016

  “End of Sleeping” is a tongue-in-cheek film impression which depicts the relationship between insects living on a mock-orange bush. The film's cinematography has been done outdoors, without disturbing the insects' natural environment.

  

  

  

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  Authors:

  • Ryszard Ferenc
• Krótka Historia Pewnego Kufra, 6'14”

  Production: PL 2015

  Szczecin, Main Station. The train arrives on time. A man carrying a trunk steps off. The Esplanade, the Ritz, the Savoy... The list of the trunk’s past goes on and on – where will it lead its owner?

  

  

  

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  Authors:

  • Radosław Sobolak
• Making of DreaMa, 4'42”

  Production: PL 2016

  “Making of DreaMa” is a video created for the purpose of a crowdfunding campaign by the band Ma. It shows how their first album, “DreaMa,” came to be.

  

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  Authors:

  • Mateusz Samolong
• March, 11'

  Production: PL 2015

  A documentary short about a Szczecin nationalist who led the 2014 Warsaw March of Independence, which involved the most serious riots in the event's history. A documentary short about a Szczecin nationalist and the 2014 Warsaw March of Independence that he lead, and which witnessed the most serious riots in the event's history. The protagonist is head of his division of Młodzież Wszechpolska Szczecin, which formed the 23rd Guard Platoon of the March of Independence and was positioned in the front lines. A short film about an individual losing their voice in the crowd.

  

  

  

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  Authors:

  • Mateusz Żegliński '16
• Nie tak bardzo nad morzem, 4'57”

  Production: PL 2015

  The Kępisty Quarter vocalist, enchanted by Prague, came up with a music video with dolls. Her elder sister, a vibraphone player, joined in. Director Szymon Nygard took the challenge. As freshly as a newcomer he went on to discover more and more of the unruly, chimerical Szczecin – “the most important dot on my world map.”

  

  

  

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  Authors:

  • Szymon Nygard
• Recydywista, 17'13”

  Production: Pl 2016

  A documentary narrated by a person from the so-called underclass. The protagonist tells his life story, which includes a period at an orphanage, at a juvenile detention centre, and at a correctional facility. The film is about the life of someone uncertain of their tomorrow, lacking faith in the possibility of improvement.

  

  

  

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  Authors:

  • Aleksander Cywiński '16
  • Karol Maćków '16
  • Dariusz Kret '16